…and the silly aspect does not diminish the serious aspect even slightly—if anything, the two complement and enhance each other.

Dood—how can you hate the "Hot Summer Night" intro? That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. And seriously, I don't know how "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is even *comprehensible* if you don't recognize it as a big joke (while simultaneously an operatic drama). Really, that Phil Rizzuto narration? Don't…

I remain highly skeptical, but I'll give it another shot.

Dude, I KNOW—Bill Murray and the Wu-Tang Clan! Tom Waits and Iggy Pop! How is that not all fucking GOLD? And yet…it's not. The sting of disappointment is…sting-y. Well, actually, the Murray/RZA&GZA part is okay, but given the AWESOME personages involved, I was kind of hoping for a LOT more.

This isn't the videogame movie?
I HAVE RAGE.

God I love this movie.
It was the first Jarmusch film I saw, and very possibly still my favorite (though Dead Man is hard to beat). Though really, I love EVERY Jarmusch film, including the much-maligned Limits of Control, but I have to admit not really including Coffee and Cigarettes, because come ON.

I am glad to see the Steinman love here—Bat Out of Hell really is a perfect album, and there is nobody in the world capable of writing songs to which you have no choice but to SIMULTANEOUSLY think "this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard" and "holy shit this is something that you have to take absolutely…

HEY I READ THAT BOOK TOO YAY I'M COOL NOW

Whatever!
Midway through this last season, I finally realized, huh. I watch this show every week, but it's not FUN anymore. It feels like an obligation. Sure, it's still occasionally amusing, but I basically hate all the characters and don't care even slightly about any plot developments. So, I stopped watching. …

Don't forget Zack Ofalltrades!

You may be right. My version's funnier, though.

Best thing about "Curse of Millhaven?"
The way the narrator enthusiastically cops to all these gruesome murders, but whoa whoa whoa—she did NOT kill that dog. That's a bridge too far.

…but on the other topic, it's pretty darned ignorant to dismiss Dostoevsky based on fifty pages of one novel. That, there is no denying.

"Dostoyevsky probably identifies most with Ivan anyway."

As far as I can ascertain, here is a complete list of these things so far, post P&P&Z (and they're not all from the same publisher—that is an untruth):

"how well the philosophical themes associated with zombies or robots or monsters is being used to modify, comment, or expand on the original work"

A premise this fundamentally stupid and obnoxious is not somehow magically going to produce something good. The shit sandwich is a perfect analogue.

Maybe if the premises/titles weren't so incredibly shitty, that wouldn't be an issue.

The thing is, the jokes are NOT HARD TO GET. This is blatantly untrue. It USED to be super-obscure on occasion, but these days it's dumbed down so that—I assume—people can feel smart for "getting" it without having to actually know anything much.

Aw…what a sweetheart you are.